Graham Busby created ‘A Safe Place to Rest’ in the wild woods of wales with live accompaniment from folk duo Deuair. The solo was produced through two weeks of creative retreat exploring responses to these beautiful and wild surroundings. The solo echoes Graham’s restlessness and inner desire to find a safe place to rest.

CELESTEKirsty Griffin and Viv Kernick, 5mins 54secs, New Zealand

As the social butterfly of Amy Street, the fun-loving, theatrical Celeste spends her days surrounded by friends and flatmates. On the occasions where she needs some alone time, she enjoys setting herself up in her beautiful room, and watching back episodes of her favourite soap operas. At times the lines between reality and fantasy can become a little blurred.

CONCEIVEDJacinta Blaxland, 50 secs, Australia

A symbolic story of the birth and death of an idea, exploring these themes through contrasting ink animals and wonder.

JUST DANCENatalie Kennedy, 5mins 36secs, UK

A creative dance piece created with DanceSyndrome; no words, the dancers say it all with their movements and expression. The film shows the healing power of dance for a group of learning disabled performers and their collaborators.

“Let’s dance, let’s sing, let’s do a show!” ‘Drumming is Like Thunder’ encapsulates Duncan Armstrong’s passion for performing. It presents his showmanship and determination to defy the bullying behaviour of some. Through movement, song and storytelling Duncan shares his dream of performing in the top cities around the world.

HATCHIskender Koekce and Barner 16, 3mins 26secs, Germany

In this music video and audio-visual poem diversity connects. Actors of “Meine Damen und Herren” meet artists of “Hajusom”; the music made by Barner 16 meets the pictures captured by 17 Motion.

IT’S LIKECraig Simpson, 5mins 30secs, UK

Dancer and choreographer Craig Simpson works through a deep embodiment and physicality, feeling, intuiting, and improvising in the moment. In this work, he invites 6 men to join him and share in his dream-like presence and quality. They each want something he has when dancing, they want to inhabit his place.

LANDSCAPESShadowlight Artists, 3mins 24 secs, UK

Influenced by the great masters of landscape paintings, the artists imagine themselves as characters within living landscape paintings.

When his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, Dante finds himself more lost than ever. He finds a shabby hotel only to discover that it’s impossible to check out. A dark, surrealistic journey with black comedy inspired by Dante’s Inferno.

MOVIE GOERStuart Quinn, 3mins, UK

A poignant study on how noise pollution affects us, and how an art space such as a cinema can offer respite from everyday urban city life.

NOMADELola Danon, 5mins 05secs, UK

“Where am I? Sometimes I wonder if I’m really here. I have the power from one second to the other to completely disappear. My physical body, my box is in the real world. My mind is far away in another dimension, escaping, travelling in an invisible world.”

If we weren’t here, we’d be in Hollywood. What makes dance political? ‘RADIAL’ captures the beautiful idiosyncrasies of a community in motion, re-imagining the spectacle of dance, exploring what it truly means to be embodied.

SPEEDBarner 16, 3min 10 secs, Germany

Stille Vann is an inclusive music project under the umbrella of the artists collective Barner 16, Hamburg. The film is based on ideas of the musicians working with fine artist, Annette Wirtz.

THE MASKSharif Persaud, 3mins 46 secs, UK

As writer-director Sharif Persaud journeys along a coastal footpath, he describes what it means to have autism while all the time wearing his favourite celebrity mask. He finally arrives at his destination where he comes face to face with his alter-ego.